Sandbox III: Revenge of the Sandbox

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Special Containment Procedures: Periodic interruptions in SCP-X's containment are an expected component of the anomaly's nature. Once confirmed, SCP-X is to be contained in a modified humanoid containment chamber at the nearest Foundation site.

When SCP-X is uncontained, reports of partial corpses are to be investigated and cases with avian activity prioritized. Foundation zoologists are to be consulted to determine the most likely site of future activity.

Description: SCP-X is a dissociative personality that presents across individuals (termed "instances") as an elderly, English-speaking male. SCP-X can be identified by a sudden change in vocal and behavioral idiosyncrasies, self-admittance, and its canonical rapport with Foundation personnel.1 This personality may be elicited from instances by applying persuasive psychological techniques, sufficient psychological duress, or pharmacological agents known to produce fugue states.2

Instances are not aware of SCP-X's underlying presence and do not recall episodes of SCP-X's emergence. They frequent graveyards and/or burial sites and have been sighted near locations where cadavers (termed "victims") are found half-consumed.3 At the time of writing, the remainders of these victims have never been recovered.

Evidence left at sites suspected of SCP-X activity do not suggest human involvement, instead implying avian participation.4 The presence of said evidence is not indicated from visualization of the gravesites by the unaided eye alone; superficially, the graves of victims are undisturbed. Law enforcement is therefore ill-equipped to indict an offender, and the Foundation was consulted by Agents Drumel and Cyllus of the UIU for additional support in apprehending a suspect.

Foundation zoologists recognized that the pattern of suspected SCP-X activity coincided with known migratory routes of indigenous vulture populations. This observation remains a reliable tool for SCP-X identification, recapture, and re-containment.

SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-4000 is contained in a nuclear bunker beneath Area ██. Within the structure, SCP-4000 will be confined to a 1.6m x 1.6m enclosure. Standard WMD protocol mandates bio-chemical suits and respirators for all staff. Decontamination and inspection of NBC filters occurs on a weekly basis.

During routine inspection, SCP-4000 should be escorted from the enclosure by no less than two security officers. To keep the entity docile, sleep deprivation is recommended prior to transport. If SCP-4000 should behave erratically, personnel should contact their superior immediately. Mobile Task Force Beta-7 remains on standby.

DESCRIPTION: SCP-4000 was first sighted at 03:28, ██ ████ 2003, approximately ██km west of Baghdad, Iraq. Thereafter, twelve █████████ private military contractors vanished while securing ██████████████. Gas chromatographs detected remnants of Sarin (GB) nerve agent at the unit's last known location. The threat posed to Coalition Forces, the Iraqi populace, and major oil infrastructure warranted immediate preemptive action.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) promptly located SCP-4000 wandering near Al-Dora Oil Refinery. SCP-4000 takes the appearance of a decaying humanoid figure wearing a black shroud. The entity remains highly volatile and prone to frequent manic episodes, often hysterically sobbing in an unidentified Semitic language. According to sources, SCP-4000 possesses the ability to produce Sarin nerve agent in its sweat and tears. In a psychotic break, SCP-4000 will release the toxin indiscriminately and unrelentingly.

Witnesses reported being awoken by crying in the early hours before the morning call (Fajr) to prayer. The reports describe a figure slowing shifting through the dark, cloaking the street in fog. The entity would stop and wipe its tears in the doorjambs of select houses. Reports varied about face-to-face encounters. For some, the entity stepped off the road and allowed them to pass. For others, the entity approached to touch the victim's face.

Unaware, most victims expire from asphyxiation several minutes after exposure. Victims exhibited the typical signs of Sarin poisoning, including Without protective equipment, no one has survived direct contact with SCP-4000.

ADDENDUM A-1: ACTION MEMO (2002/██/██)Due to the scarcity of evidence, no conclusions can be drawn about the creation of SCP-4000 or any attempts to weaponize it. At present, SCP-4000 has not produced Sarin while in containment. It remains unclear whether the entity is presently unable or unwilling to create the agent. Effective immediately, the foundation's prerogative is to ascertain the process in which SCP-4000 produces Sarin, the whereabouts of any additional chemical agents, and any connections to the Ba'ath Party, Al-Qaeda, or ███████. Use of enhanced interrogation techniques has been approved on SCP-4000 and any affiliated detainees.

ADDENDUM A-1: ACTION MEMO (2002/██/██)It is highly plausible that this clay tablet, and its incantation pertaining to Sumerian spirits, is either a forgery or inconsequential to SCP-4000. Since the Anglo-American invasion, high-levels of archaeological looting and dissemination of misinformation have been reported in Iraq.
——G 04.12.366 Utukku Invocation, Tablet 40H. 114mm W. 140mm Th. 31mm 3rd millennium, Akkadian

TRANSLATION

Column One.

1.

Vengeful utukku (spirit),

2.

Pestilence of Assur.

3.

The sword that smote Elam

4.

Subjugator to the lands south of Ur.

5.

Plague Summoner on the Tigris

6.

Wicked edimmu [BROKEN]

Column Two.

1.

2.

Hand of a ghost [BROKEN]

3.

The wine laced with scorpions' venom.

4.

Plague Summoner on the banks of the Tigris,

5.

Reaper of maladies, who sowed his vengeance,

6.

whose harvest yields accusations & lies.

Fi­nally, no cur­rently known tech­niques are ca­pa­ble of re­li­ably dis­plac­ing a tar­get into the past in a way that keeps the tar­get in­tact - even a very small mis­match in the cal­i­bra­tion on cur­rent tech­niques will con­vert the tar­get into an as-yet-un­known form of mat­ter on dis­place­ment. For­tu­nately, this lim­i­ta­tion does not ap­pear to ap­ply to for­ward dis­place­ments.

Due to these lim­i­ta­tions, trans­port of peo­ple, ob­jects, or an­i­mals into the past is largely out of the ques­tion. How­ever, it is rel­a­tively straight­for­ward to trans­mit dig­i­tal in­for­ma­tion us­ing streams of par­ti­cles and sen­si­tive de­tec­tors. Ap­pa­ra­tus ca­pa­ble of re­ceiv­ing such streams was first de­vel­oped in 1991, plac­ing a hard cap on the ear­li­est date that one can re­li­ably send in­for­ma­tion to. Chap­ter 5 cov­ers de­tails of retro­causal trans­mis­sion schemes used for this pur­pose.

retro­ca­usal con­nec­tions

Based on trans­mis­sions re­ceived from our fu­ture, it is be­lieved that most, if not all, of these lim­i­ta­tions will even­tu­ally be over­come, but as yet noth­ing more spe­cific about time travel tech­nol­ogy has been received.

Reliquary Site-25 is dedicated to the Containment of several dangerous Euclid-class religious anomalies related to several Groups of Interest.

Renard Class memetic agent.

a Class II memetic hazard

on the Foundation's expanded periodic table of elements,

individuals below eighty (80) on the Psychic Resistance Scale will insist that SCP-754-1 has always been present in the illustration, and those below ninety (90) on the Psychic Resistance Scale will be reluctant to destroy SCP-754 unless prompted to or trained.

If it doesn’t infect with the capability/intention of propagating more infections, it isn’t memetic.

"This document is considered out of date and is not currently representational of any project of the SCP Foundation site. This document is retained for its historical value alone, and it should not be used as a reference for the current rules, attitude, and position of the site."

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Aleph Meta level

"Johnathan. For every Keter-class anomaly, there are at least twenty Euclid-class anomalies like her. They just do their own thing, live their own life, don't bother anyone. The anomalous isn't inherently evil or good."

Non-survivable

hysterical realist

The mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated but probably involves

Haptic

so that the entire missile-gelatin interaction was captured

mass amnesticization

preternatural

Since then, however, methods have been devised to slow down and trap neutral antihydrogen atoms; the temperature of these atoms is actually very low, cryogenic even, as the antihydrogen atoms are held in magnetic traps for extended periods of time.

Upon exceeding the Bekenstein bound a storage medium would collapse into a black hole.[2] This finds parallels with the concept of a kugelblitz, a concentration of light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity and the equivalence of mass and energy.

A concentration of light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity and the equivalence of mass and energy, if enough radiation is aimed into a region, the concentration of energy can warp spacetime enough for the region to become a black hole (although this would be a black hole whose original mass-energy had been in the form of radiant energy rather than matter). In simpler terms, a kugelblitz is a black hole formed from radiation as opposed to matter…A kugelblitz would be so hot it would surpass the Planck temperature, the temperature of the universe 5.4×10−44 seconds (one Planck time) after The Big Bang.

In physics, the Bekenstein bound is an upper limit on the entropy S, or information I, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of energy…

The rest of a system's information capacity (aside from its entropy) might be called extropy, and it represents the part of the system's information capacity which is potentially still available for storing newly derived information. The fact that physical entropy is basically "used-up storage capacity" is a direct concern in the engineering of computing systems; e.g., a computer must first remove the entropy from a given physical subsystem (eventually expelling it to the environment, and emitting heat) in order for that subsystem to be used to store some newly computed information.

Hume reading is within normal limits.

preterite

addended

kludge

As noted above, this article ignores the delete command; it cannot be extricated from the database without extensive collateral corruption of other critical systems. Instead, the containment strategy is to minimize the probability of a user discovering this entry by chance. To this end, an un-haltable mainframe process (ID 9000013) repeatedly switches the ordinal designation of this article with that of another randomly selected entry.

-BEGIN AUTHORIZATION KEY BLOCK-

Behemoth-class amnestic

L-3s

there is a mechanism I could take advantage of – it’s actually designed to protect against anomalous data corruption,

make this section of the article write-once

I’ll need to borrow your credential token

simulacrum

With this approach the space-time paths of the subject's constituent particles are reversed, and events literally undone, until the subject is restored to a functional state.

Six months ago, we resurrected Roger Sheldon, formerly O5-11, with a novel procedure.

direst

The first was an obstinate refusal to fortify (as we call it) – to enhance his longevity with the supplements available to those of our station.

The alternating Galapagos rains and bright sun (and perhaps hawks) had reduced him to a moldering ruin of bone fragments and only the stubbornest sinew.

diaspora

which I shouldn't have to point out is not our term of art

Sapient life is necessarily intertwined with quantum uncertainty. Localize a particle with perfect precision, and it attains infinitely uncertain momentum, lost in an instant. Just so, the longer, and the more tightly a consciousness is bound to a specific vessel, the more likely it will scatter irretrievably on its own.

Apex-tier Pluripotent Entities

torpor

Dare we try to fathom the collective agony of legions of ancient dead?

"We must declare human death a Keter SCP," she demanded, "and contain it at any cost."

Confessions:
If you are still reading through this, then you need a psych eval. It's okay because we can go together, as you will understand after you read this passage and perhaps some of my works. I am elatedly insane. Not socially insane by any means, I am sane socially and am not a proponent of any sort of negative intent or harm usually associated with the ilk of the insane.

Better said; I am a lover of the absurd. And I don't mean I just really enjoy the absurd; I mean I existentially roll around with it in comfortable sheets and attempt to seduce it.

fracas

Penumbral

When adopted, revisions to containment procedures "suggested" by SCP-001 consistently reduce the rate of breaches not only for the anomalies to which they apply, but for numerous unrelated anomalies. In many cases, these revisions have also resulted in the cessation of anomalous behavior.

As memetic entities they exist within the senses of nearby sentient beings.

Additional research into clown-based memetic inoculation is pending.

asiatic

Artificial neural network

standard memetic transmission precautions should be followed and post-exposure amnestics administered.

Management of SCP-4000 has been repurposed to control rather than eradication.

memetic hazard consisting of the phrase

SCP-4000 also exhibits self-concealing properties, which conceal insight into its anomalous nature from persons without specialised counter-memetics training.

The effects of SCP-4000 result in

These anomalous properties are a result of SCP-4000’s origin as

per annum

This office categorically rejects the insinuation that the management of SCP-4000 is affected by conflicts of interest in any way. All staff receive extensive background checks and are obliged to act with the highest levels of integrity. Declarations of interest are provided by all personnel and there is no evidence that any external interests have affected Foundation responses to SCP-4000. The Foundation welcomes staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, including from the defence industry, who bring invaluable experience and professional contacts.

The nature of SCP-4000 and the Foundation's overarching mission necessitates cooperation with national armed forces and defence industries. The Council is confident that strong future partnerships with these institutions are integral to global security, protection and containment of the anomalous.

nomenclative hazards

florid language may be used for the sake of nomenclative diversity.

expurgated

any other individuals possessing the same name are to be administered Type-G viral amnestics and assigned a new one.

and may be released following a period of disquisitional rehabilitation.

Cartographic endeavors have resulted in vastly different routes being recorded with each expedition,

Native entities often undergo changes in physical structure when unobserved, which has made it difficult for researchers to determine which recorded entities are unique beings and which are newer iterations of those previously documented.

libelous

Foundation's Department of Public Disinformation

Due to the sensitive nature of Vice President Gore's anomaly, it was determined that a disinformation campaign so closely linked to the truth would be ill-fated.

a Containment Committee Special Proposals Board

Lehrer raises an eyebrow, while Director Bright raises both.

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unusual Incidents Unit

a phone line originally used for undercover Foundation agents to take inquiries concerning the Republican Presidential campaign

As SCP-4000 is accessed by philosophical contemplation,

Due to its anomalous effect, all documentation concerning SCP-4000 is to be contained in the form of a Socratic dialogue. To ensure stability, the containment procedures for SCP-4000 are to be recited in group dialogue, accompanied by contemplation of SCP-4000-1.

eidonauts

stadions

polymorphic entity

wide scale Class A amnestic compounds are to be employed to all major population centers via airborne distribution if no other options of erasure are viable

Designed antimemes vs mass amnestics

You prime the reader for some kind of reveal or revelation by having a very dry description occasionally mixed with something being slightly off about the description and procedures.

tenuous connection

Well written, certainly, but bland.

a Class III Humanoid (Supine) intensive care sarcophagus

self-directed movement

Tabnabbing: In May 2010, Mozilla Firefox's creative lead, Aza Raskin, described tabnabbing, a new way to get users to enter their credentials into fake sites. If a user has a legitimate site open on one tab, it is possible to execute a JavaScript program from another tab to change the contents of that tab and hence trick the users into re-entering their credentials.

rated at a minimum of 72 on the Memetic Resistance Index.

Bioamnestic/bacterioamnestic

Due to SCP-4000's unwillingness or inability to appear before more than one person at a time, in addition to the subsequent and immediate death of any who witness it firsthand, SCP-4000 is effectively self-containing.

reeducated him into full Foundation loyalty

Through utilization of standard Foundation procedures for government destabilization

Original style and/or period appropriate tenses may have been removed or obscured during interpretation for ease of reading.

As such, SCP-4000 cannot be adequately described in a manner that both respects all of its parts and adheres to standard requirements. What follows is an appreciable, if disorderly, description that satisfies the Foundation's motives regarding the physical description, characteristics, and/or properties of a given anomaly, anomalous object, or a group thereof for the explicit purpose of cataloging.

Neither this individual, mobile task force, or location existed within Foundation records at this point in time. They did, however, enter Foundation databases under normal circumstances in 2044, 2051, and 2082 respectively.

Interviews with the subject Sidd were allowed to continue per insistence from researcher Kant.

foist

It is the pervasiveness and frequency of these nigh incalculably low probability events, and their collaboration to effectively spread misinformation about Massachusetts, that earns SCP-4000 anomalous recognition.

SCP-4000's effects make Massachusetts an unusually secure location for Foundation activities. However, while SCP-4000 is currently the most powerful probability based anomaly within the Foundation's knowledge, purview, and containment, it has been shown to be imperfect, as several Foundation scientists were able to discover the true nature of Massachusetts while researching anomalies they believed to be within Massachusetts.

The first motion argues that SCP-4000 no longer quantifiably exists. The second motion argues that while SCP-4000 was a large enough phenomenon to warrant the designation of an SCP object at the time, every individual piece of SCP-4000 was able to be explained by coincidence and science. The third motion has been put forth by the O5 council without explanation.

with memories showing extreme resistance to fading or erasure by amnestics.

is to be monitored for behavioral or other psychological abnormalities on a twice-weekly schedule.

Autopsies performed on the bodies of SCP-4000-B late in the process of performing SCP-4000-A instances indicate significant trauma to the prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe, and pineal gland, originating within and moving outward.

but something about the way he talks makes him come off as affected and robotic. It also sounds like all his speech is scripted.

You knew the Cacophony was never about you, but when it happened, terror and shame caught up with you anyway.

When these conditions are met, any audio recorded by affected devices will be completely replaced by an energetic, high-tempo arrangement of saxophone and other brass instruments typically described by personnel as "raucous" or "saucy." Furthermore, any dramatic events within these recordings (e.g., physical collisions, rapid containment barrier extension, graphic evisceration, or [DATA EXPUNGED]) are punctuated with exaggerated sounds produced by obscure instruments such as bicycle horns, slide whistles, or zithers.2 (For example SCP-1955-J recordings, See Addendum 1955-J-1.)

and replaced with approved forgeries.

and the acquisition of CCTV footage within the 20:10 - 20:35 interval was authorized.

ejecta

it immediately vanishes, then reappears within SCP-4660-3's living room, causing a detectable spike in Elan-Vital Energy. (The fundamental particle of aetheric energy, which powers all thaumatology.)

Any activation of SCP-4018's anomalous effect constitutes a breach of secrecy…To this end, both conventional retrieval methods and sabotage of SCP-4018-A are permitted. SCP-4018-A's power over the Foundation, if any, must be negated.

Containment operations are considered finished once SCP-4018-A is no longer active.

Subjects will use the two concepts interchangeably in all situations without any discernible loss of meaning. Knowledge of one concept confers a similar degree of knowledge about the other;

This effect makes it difficult to ascertain the exact nature of the correlation between SCP-4018-A's control over SCP-4018 and its success, as subjects who consider the two concepts identical will fail to make the distinctions necessary to properly trace cause and effect.

It has been hypothesized that SCP-4018's effects are ontological, i.e. that SCP-4018-A's success and its control over SCP-4018 become truly identical for the duration of the effect, rather than merely impossible for humans to discern.

Foundation naval assets are to maintain a 5km zone of exclusio

redirected using cover story SCP-4222-A

Approval was granted following a cost-benefit analysis and Ethics Committee vote of 6-1 in favor.

The new matter relates to potatoes at various conceptual levels, be that immediate or vague. The new matter grows alongside SCP-4420, attaching themselves via esoteric means beyond current agricultural understanding.

tuber

During this time, SCP-4420 displayed the ability to manipulate informational constructs. This led to the dissemination of 362 separate SMS messages to researchers on-site

A minimum of ten locations suitable for triggering SCP-4545 manifestation are to be maintained by the Foundation at all times.

Instances of SCP-4545 observed by the public are to be explained as artistic endeavours where possible

with sufficient space to fully admit it within

SCP-4545 only manifests in unobserved areas; recording equipment or human presence are sufficient to prevent its occurrence.

begin to disgorge instances of SCP-4545-1

Naval Task Force Gamma-17, working from SCPS Unity, is to oversee containment of SCP-4567.

Under no circumstances is the entity to be terminated, as any termination attempts not taking place at the end of SCP-4856's life would logically already have ended in failure.

All transfers form closed timelike curves2, suggesting an advanced level of temporal integration not available to the Foundation in the past or investigated future. Investigations have so far proceeded as far as the year 2900 Anno Domini, and while Temporal Distortion Engines have been constructed prior to this date they are imperfect and require manual paradox resolution by Foundation staff to prevent timeline collapse.

The Department of Temporal Anomalies

the acausal series of events

EC Liaison Müller was removed from duty shortly after the meeting due to unwarranted vehemence and unprofessional behaviour.

Foundation agents quickly enacted a cover-up, and the children were placed under Foundation custody as SCP-4243-A.

Further information about SCP-4022 is restricted to personnel who have received the appropriate battery of memetic inoculations.

It is also theorized that referring to the great big nothing in the middle of his head as such prevents it from being understood by the speaker as a formally extant entity, thereby mitigating its cognitohazardous effects.

thaumaturgy —> thumatology

Etymological relation between thumaturgy and thaumiel.

The development of effective containment procedures for SCP-4028 is ongoing.

SCP-4028 is a sapient metafictional construct capable of inhabiting and altering fictional texts narratively adjacent to the one it occupies. Adjacency is determined via characters or settings shared between texts.

This includes defending those it perceives as helpless, striking down those it perceives as wicked, and extolling the virtues of romantic chivalry.

Alonso then explains to Harry that giants, wizards, and sorcerers all traffic with the Devil and must be avoided at any cost.

the Pataphysics Department (a fictitious department created for the purposes of investigating, counteracting, and containing allegorical and/or metafictional anomalies)

the use of SCP-423 (a sapient metafictional construct capable of entering and exploring textual narratives

purchased the property affected by SCP-4028 through a shell company

psionic phenomena.

Personnel interacting with the anomaly must maintain the guise of the Foundation being an organization dedicated to hunting trilobites,

Orders or incentives to interact with or research SCP-2808 are invalid.

As SCP-4113 accelerated away, it emitted gamma radiation in increasing amounts. It is believed that this is a result of the object impacting interstellar hydrogen at appreciable fractions of c.

SCP-3943-1 is to receive regular training in performing its service duties in an expert capacity and in a sexually attractive manner.

Hmm. The night before this started, I had a dream where I was a lion in ancient Rome, and there were all these gladiators around me. I ate them one by one, scraping every morsel of flesh from their bones with the rough edge of my tongue. I was glad to see their loved ones weep at the sight. But besides that, nothing unusual, no.

a strict internal logic that's only slightly out of the reader's grasp

immanentization (immanetize the eschaton)

decremented

While the text of SCP-4164 demonstrates fluency in American English, lexical analysis of most other observed languages reveals grammatical and syntactical errors consistent with commercially available machine translation software.

fade to a dull thrum

wherein you should endeavor to squirrel away your device in the south-west corner,

functioning as a telephone, text messaging system, photographic camera, internet browser, and much more besides.

Media Suppression personnel.

as the heat will cause it to scald and coagulate.

Personnel are advised that the footage depicts the death of Section Manager Allan M█████, and thus contains graphic content of a potentially disturbing nature.

Each SCP-001-K instance is kept in place by another entity, with the anomalous properties of each separate object neutralizing the effect of the other.

The area of containment is currently designated a high security military waste disposal site

, and have been designed to kill on-sight.

When separated these patterns appear random, however certain characteristics become evident when the instances are brought together and as such, each instance is contained roughly ████ from any other instance of Item-001.

Using information gained from recent testing of Item-███ and Item-███, an opportunity has arisen previously unavailable to the Foundation: the ability to, over large distances, alter the quantum makeup of objects in such a way to render the target functionally non-existent2.

Full chemical dissolution of upper nervous system.

The gamma radiation emitted by Item-001 appears to come randomly between individuals, but when brought together resembles patterns made by conscious human beings on EEG machines.

Despite the resemblance, these patterns are more sporadic and inconsistent than what is usually observed in such situations.

"Now, for a nit that is too big not to be picked"

Quantum entanglement allowing for the manipulation of particles at any distance so long as you're aware of what it is, because when you gain knowledge of an object you're changing it.

These efforts were aided by the quantity of thick, black smoke that accompanied SCP-001, and current historical records describe the event as a forest fire.

As the amount of material produced and consumed by SCP-3620 do not appear to adhere to the standard laws of conservation of mass, any mass shed naturally or removed during the course of testing must be replaced by an equal mass of food to prevent long-term planetary mass discrepancy.

Records, memories, and the animals themselves will be retroactively altered as if the statement had not been in error. Only the memories of those who have watched the episode prior to this alteration will be unaffected.

Due to the difficulty in containing such wide-spread anomalies, by the time containment was achieved it is believed that exposure was almost global.

before dispersing through a combination of law enforcement action and natural attrition.

Just trying to eliminate obvious angles.

Interviews with the other band members contain corroborating details of the incident.

Due to his condition, SCP-3933-B suffers frequent bouts of coughing and shortness of breath; for the purposes of readability, this transcript has been edited to remove those disruptions.

as an epistolary piece

its exact nature and properties have yet to be definitively ascertained.

SCP-3980 exists in a purely metaphysical sense and is a potent informational hazard - full cognizance of SCP-3980 is sufficient to kill subjects

The Garfield media franchise is to remain active and successful for as long as feasibly possible.

are to place targeted memetic agents in outgoing comic strips, encouraging the retention of a sizable Garfield fan-base and discouraging Jim Davis from discontinuing Garfield.

Any witnesses are then to be administered amnestics as appropriate for their level of exposure.

The exterior layer of SCP-3166's body resembles a crudely-made costume of the character Garfield, which field inspection has shown to be composed of legitimate cat fur. However, analysis of SCP-3166's composition in the field has shown that its interior mass is composed entirely out of pasta: specifically, lasagna.

for additional context on pataphysical awakening.

genetic analysis of the meat present within the lasagna has shown it to be genetically identical to Garfield creator Jim Davis. The implications of this are currently unclear.

a strong cryptoarchaic ward

as such current secondary containment measures are considered adequate until investigation yields a feasible mechanism for its physical containment.

though this fact has, for unknown reasons, not been a cause for alarm or interest for any administration within which this information is retained.

it will generally state an aphorism such as “You can't bottle a squall, son” or “Only fool catch takes fool bait”,

The arriving agent will also have some item of fishing paraphernalia on their person. This is generally presented in a humiliating or degrading fashion, such as a fishing float inserted into a nostril, or a number of lead sinkers of sufficient weight left in the pockets to cause the agent's pants to disengage from the waist.

After a period of time varying from the shortest recorded of 32 seconds to the longest of 3h44m55s,

remains examined and determined to consist entirely of the corpses of individuals declared deceased within a 350 kilometer radius over the course of the previous year. Investigation into intended burial locations of recovered human remains revealed thousands of undisturbed graves with caskets whole, but remains missing.

As SCP-3176 is technically composed of loyal Foundation personnel, and temporally delocalised, no active containment is either necessary or feasible at the present time. Containment Procedures for SCP-3176 therefore revolve around maintaining causality and preventing paradoxical event series, either through the direction of MTF-η-⊃ or the manufacture and activation of temporally manipulative technology.

Documentation on SCP-3176 is to be placed in variable ChronoLock, as is standard for temporal anomalies of this type. Queries may be brought up at any time with the current project lead — if they are not available, contact may be established with a predecessor or successor (dependant on circumstance).

MTF-Eta-Then, "Cause and Effective")

SCP-1661 consists of a swarm of self-replicating automata composed primarily of aircraft components, assembled in a random and seemingly nonfunctional manner. Although general arrangement and internal workings are highly variable between instances, each specimen contains a single, genetically cephalopodic eye of varying size in its approximate center. All SCP-1661 are capable of self-directed flight through unknown means, and posses an aptitude for swift, coordinated maneuverability.

and any capacitor showing values outside its nominal tolerance is to be replaced with an equivalent part.

SCP-1661 prefers to hunt collectively at night, attacking their target mid-flight. They are capable of completely deconstructing un-manned crafts and aerial drones in a matter of minutes; in all recorded cases they were successful in reducing such craft into scrap throughout free-fall, and before the craft could impact the ground.

There are two contacts in the phone, one labeled "Me" and the other labeled "Behind Me", both of which have no functioning phone number. Persons viewing pictures on SCP-3633 express an unfounded feeling of being watched from behind.

however all screen shots of these texts created a picture of static. Therefore, transcriptions of the messages received from SCP-3633 are presented instead.

Anti-memetic pulses

In practice, objects with an SEP index of 0.5 or lower are almost never consciously noticed unless the observer has received specialized awareness training or is already interested in the object.

Standard anti-cognitohazard precautions do not affect SCP-3181's anomalous property, indicating that this is not a perception-altering anomaly, but instead some other phenomenon.

As a result, the actual meaning of "boneless" is unknown. Subjects experience a level of cognitive dissonance that prevents them from carrying this to its logical conclusion; for example, while a subject might identify an animal as boneless, and believe that bonelessness implies the lack of bones, they will interact with the animal as though they believe it to possess bones.

Visual information alone is sufficient to identify bonelessness in 65% of cases (or 40% when color information is withheld), while a further 20% can be confirmed boneless via touch; in all remaining cases, some combination of the two is necessary.

◾A subject's ability to render something boneless is proportional to their will to accomplish the task, and only weakly proportional to their skill at the acts necessary to do so.

While other hypotheses have been made about bonelessness, the statistical methods necessary to evaluate these hypotheses have not been agreed upon; those present in this document are those that are understood as true by consensus of SCP-3181's research team, or that are considered relevant enough to include provisionally. Appendix A (Download PDF - 218.0 MB) contains a list of all things for which bonelessness status is known.

Any individuals attempting to gain access to SCP-3186 are to be interviewed and administered amnestics as is appropriate for their level of exposure.

SCP-3856 is a probabilistic anomaly affecting all iterations of Foundation Researcher Samuel Lloyd across all known variants of the Foundation, in all known life-supporting universes.

Cross-testing with other anomalies known to manipulate chance has yielded a null result in all cases, suggesting SCP-3856 manifests as an intrinsic property of the metaphysical nature of Researcher Lloyd1.

In circumstances where Researcher Lloyd would ordinarily be killed before this event, SCP-3856 appears to have the secondary effect of hastening a large-scale K-Class End-of-the-world scenario.

Observation of terminated universes containing an iteration of Researcher Lloyd reveals that the severity of the apocalyptic event caused by SCP-3856 is inversely proportional to the number of sapient individuals residing within the affected universe. To clarify: while a human population of several billion will result only in the worldwide extermination of said humans, the death of Researcher Lloyd within an uninhabited or sparsely populated universe risks a high-level Yggdrasil Severance Event, and the subsequent collapse of adjacent dimensional regions.

Given U-B9PYB's attempt to conceal an instance of Researcher Lloyd in a scheduled shipment of precious metals, the decision has been made by the O5 Council to close all exo-universal trade routes.

Exo-universal elections are due to be postponed until a practical solution to issue MU-3856-SCT-LLOYD can be found.

Due to the low availability of Floater Universes, twelve of the forty-eight Researcher Lloyd instances currently in Foundation posession are to be shifted to the nearest available universes with low probability of undergoing K-Class Events. Apologies have been preemptively made to all involved parties. As a show of good faith, baseline Lloyd will be kept, with research into a consequence-free termination method as a Highest-Level priority.

Although the actions taken are in violation of exo-universal regulations, the goal of maintaining veil protocols and preventing large-scale damage to humanity is currently considered more important. Due to the current parapolitical climate, the possible implementation of sanctions on baseline reality is considered unlikely at best.

in various states of preservation.

Testing with fish equipped with cameras failed to reveal any hostile forces on the other side of the edge; thus, a preliminary exploration was approved.

Dr. Arceo, the exploration coordinator.

While conceptually attached to an object, the specimen of SCP-3160 is also present within all objects with a similar conceptual framework within a radius of ten kilometers. SCP-3160 can also emerge physically from any such object within that radius, making their conceptual properties an effective form of escape as well as concealment.

While in its conceptual form, SCP-3160 can physically interfere with any organism within a meter of any of the objects it is inhabiting. This interference takes the form of numerous, repeated stings, often encouraging the organism to retreat further away from the object. These stings have been shown to have no properties outside of those expected from a normal yellowjacket wasp.

As the only identifying concept belonging to Object Apol is 'being Object Apol', rather than possessing the concepts of its numerous components, specific physical description of it is not possible. When Object Apol is inhabited by a specimen of SCP-3160, the fact that no other objects with its conceptual framework exist means that SCP-3160 cannot use it to escape or influence anything outside of their enclosure.

Upon the termination of his contract involving SCP-3160 containment, Saul has agreed to undergo amnestic therapy to remove all memories of his creating Object Apol. This ensures that he cannot recreate it in the future and potentially compromise containment of SCP-3160.

As Vulture Gulch is officially designated a ghost town by Maricopa County, little administrative containment is required. A perimeter of reinforced concrete barricades surrounding SCP-3885 will be maintained and monitored by a permanent armed security contingent under the guise of ongoing hazardous material cleanup.

Evidence provided in Andrew's videographic log pinpointed SCP-3388 as the cause of these three deaths.

Preface: Footage of the aftermath of a reality restructuring event in a civilian home located in Tuscon, Arizona. Video recorded by the late Agent Andrews.

antimemetic camouflage

The drawing depicts a barren landscape with a large knotted willow tree in the foreground, at the crest of a hill of bare earth.

If an individual enters slow-wave sleep (stage 3 of non-REM sleep) while in proximity to SCP-3515, that individual will spontaneously dematerialize.

This location is confirmed by multilateration of the broadcast signal of the recording equipment.

the closest Mobile Task Force is ordered to the location of the GPS signal.

On several occasions, the tunneling disturbs bones or decomposing human remains.

SCP-3340 is the collective term for incorporeal, parasitic entities which are generated when a being is able to conceptualise their existence.

Classical conditioning techniques have been implemented to prevent negative behaviours should they arise; failing the classical conditioning, destruction of the instance’s parent information will prevent further memetic spreading of the instance. (this should be in the containment but whatev)

Foundation assets will establish an observation cordon

Resultant explosion will be publicly designated a vehicular accident.

SCP-3884-01 will loudly advertise its products and attempt to give them to any passersby within arm's reach, or simply throw them on the ground in a pile near SCP-3884 in the frequent event that no civilians accept them.

As a result, none have participated in its rewards program, thus information regarding the aforementioned “prizes” is limited.

often floating in the water and trailing scientific research and conservationist vessels from a distance when they pass.

Further investigation of the weaving pattern and whether it can be replicated for Foundation use has begun.

Passengers aboard the flight are able to recall the events that take place during SCP-3767, but only when prompted. However, they are unable to comprehend the abnormality of the event.

For brevity, the following transcription begins immediately after the announcement was made that an additional passenger was on board the flight.

Arms composed of gaseous, liquid, or amorphous materials retain their shape. Compositions of removed arms appear to be generated at random.

Foundation watchdog algorithms are to monitor online and print media for mention of SCP-2747-positive keyphrases.

All matches are to be tagged and forwarded to the Department of Analytics, which will provide further confirmation of SCP-2747 manifestation.

Controlled observation of SCP-2747 will take place using local computing resources to procedurally generate narratives at varying levels of complexity and nestedness.

Simultaneously, descriptions of the narratives are to be generated using Foundation media-parsing analytic/meta-analytic software at varying degrees of abstraction.

with its seed conditions subsequently tagged as SCP-2747-conducive. Given a large enough sample size, the boundary conditions of SCP-2747 can then be identified and mapped with a sufficient degree of clarity.

The results of LUCID CHALICE will be documented within the current documentation as Appendix B.

Descriptions, screenshots, photographs of physical copies, and brief segments of text from said work of fiction can often be discovered in SCP-2747-affected media. Descriptions of it are entirely consistent with each other, and it has proven possible to reconstruct whole segments of fictitious media via descriptions of it taken from SCP-2747-generated metacontent.

be strictly limited to clearance levels 4-2747 and 3-ANALYTICS.

SCP-3355 is contained at its location of discovery.

Foundation information security personnel

SCP-3355 displays sentience despite being fitted with obsolete hardware that should not be capable of maintaining an artificial intelligence construct. SCP-3355 is connected through unknown means2 to a wireless internet access point, the source of which has not yet been determined.

SCP-3355 was originally developed

SCP-3355 is capable of interfering and tampering with regional logistics systems, rerouting packages or, in some cases, providing duplicate orders and adding new ship-to addresses to the duplicates.

SCP-3355 was formally discovered by one such investigator, who traced a package back through several logistics hand-offs, eventually ascertaining and tracing the original order from within the former army base.

During a phone call with the news station to confirm his findings, Foundation operatives intercepted the call and collected the man for analysis and amnesticization. The story officially concluded with a statement provided by the Foundation posing as the aforementioned St. Nick, and this has been the prevailing cover story ever since.

SCP-3355’s sentience was not deduced until after initial containment, when SCP-3355 was seen acting intelligently in order to prevent its diverted packages from being seized by Foundation assets.

Foundation cognitians

This was later confirmed during the initial interview with the entity…Addendum 3355.2: Initial Interviews

Due to SCP-3355’s system configuration, direct communication is not possible. SCP-3355 has no direct interface save for a simple command line, and this cannot be used for communicating with the entity. In order to facilitate a conversation between Foundation researchers and SCP-3355, the Foundation artificial intelligence construct alexandra.aic was assigned to communicate with SCP-3355 and relay information back to Foundation research personnel.

my empathy protocols have recently been calibrated

These logisticians, they speak a whole different language than you or I, or even normal people.

It is simply not cost effective for us to try and contain an entity that can so thoroughly outsmart even our most powerful systems, and attempting to do so would only be a waste of our resources.

Addendum 3355.3: Containment Committee Review Board Decision

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3812 is currently only partially contained. See containment proposal brief below for more information…Keter-Class Containment Proposal Brief:

Information Security teams are to monitor all forms of digital media in order to prevent widespread awareness of SCP-3812.

in order to establish a more comprehensive containment procedure.

though any attempt to deduce how often this has happened would be speculative.

Due to SCP-3812's latent effect on reality, it is nearly impossible to describe SCP-3812 in any meaningful way.

SCP-3812 exhibits signs of an extremely advanced Eigenmann-Veitor schizophrenia complex4, specifically: extreme paranoia, extreme dysphoria, extreme mania/depression, inability to properly perceive their surroundings, inability to discern the difference between the real and imagined, inability to differentiate between living and dead beings, inability to control expressions of emotion, hearing voices that are not there, seeing things that are not there, feeling or otherwise experiencing stimuli that do not exist, etc5.

it is impossible to know how often reality has been modified, only how often SCP-3812 has not created a clean alteration and has left behind evidence of its influence on reality.

Ongoing containment of SCP-3740 requires strict adherence to a disinformation campaign created by Site-81 containment specialists, currently designated as the Mount Olympus Protocol.

Due to SCP-3740’s abilities and characteristics, it is currently classified as a Keter-class anomalous entity. However, containment efforts are aided by the fact that SCP-3740 is remarkably gullible. SCP-3740 accepts almost all statements at face value, and displays no traces of skepticism or uncertainty. SCP-3740 will readily believe almost anything said by any person, so long as it believes that individual is a similarly powerful deity. Actual supernatural feats are not required as evidence of deific power: simple card tricks or sleight of hand are sufficient proof of godhood in the eyes of SCP-3740.

Foundation actors posing as

General amnestic release is authorized to be used in the case of a containment breach, up to and including global Class A amnesticization, as required.

SCP-001 is the document describing consensus reality. Anomalous activity is therefore defined as any activity that occurs outside the parameters of the document. The document may describe certain characteristics of reality as inherently anomalous, as decided upon by the O5 Council.

This is to be encouraged because it allows for plausible deniability when an anomaly is more widely witnessed in public.

theurgy is anomalous, religion and spirituality are not.

We do not prevent destruction. We sequester the anomalous.

Maybe the problem isn't with the equations. Maybe the whole of nuclear physics is anomalous itself. Enrico Fermi has already received a Nobel Prize for his work on transuranic elements and radioactivity. We can't just secure nuclear physics from the world. Radioactivity is everywhere, and we end up causing more contradictions when we try to send ourselves back to the Dark Ages. Try explaining chemistry without referring to covalent bonds.

It pretty clearly falls under irreproducible conspiracy theories.

We weren't sure. So, to test this, we acquired the corpse and showed it to a number of D-class. They all agreed that it was a human corpse. We then introduced them to the worm-that-walks conspiracy, and upon viewing the corpse again, 20% of them agreed that it was actually a mass of worms….That sounds like a memetic hazard, then…Has the conspiracy literature been scanned by the CH Department?

CH found it negative for memetic effects, but did find a chart in one pamphlet that would function like a mnestic trigger, unlocking a memory. However, of course, it would only work if the affected had that memory…And that memory would be?…Having recently seen a living worm that walks.

It's because we aren't only here to secure, contain, and protect the world. We're here to secure, contain, and protect you.

The defining feature of the anomalous is that it cannot be explained through simple scientific testing. This makes you and your nature different. Unique, even. And that scarcity makes it valuable. But that doesn't mean that your value is something everyone can appreciate. Sometimes, it can only be appreciated by those who would use it against you.

Cover story 3935.18 “Hazardous Waste Disaster” is currently being disseminated.

The original creator of the arch, or how it became buried so far underground in first place, are the subjects of investigation.

When only two of the eleven individuals who entered SCP-3935 returned to the antechamber, and when they began to give accounts of their experiences within, Foundation personnel embedded in local authorities took over the investigation.

Students arriving to the school notice that the Indiana state flag is more than three meters above the top of the flagpole, attached to nothing. The American flag is not found. When observed, students claim that they can also see nine female figures hanging by ropes from the flagpole, which disappear immediately after being seen.

A custodian reports seeing something standing at the bottom of the pool staring at him.

At 7:56am, the entire school hears someone whisper the word “hello” in their right ear.

The entire school shifts up roughly a foot off its foundations at 11:23am. The vice principal sent to inspect it describes “something small, with too many faces, grinning at him from underneath the building” before the school slowly resettles.

As the students leave the school for the day, they see nine young women hanging in the air, tilted forward at a 45 degree angle, roughly 25m above the school’s parking lot. They can be seen silently mouthing words.

Students hear the entity say the word “hello” again, are immediately surrounded by nine screaming female figures, and then are suddenly in their own homes.

Several individuals report seeing bodies hanging in the sky.

down the main thoroughfare in the town.

UIU amnestic regimens

The faces of all nine suddenly become visible, and although they are not visible on the recording due to the distance, both agents noticeably recoil.

Their movements are erratic and their bodies are contorted into impossible positions.

No more transmissions from any of the three microphones received after this point.

◾Many reports of sounds coming from a grove of trees near the high school. Examination of the grove returned only a dilapidated one-bedroom house and nine [DATA EXPUNGED] in the backyard. The appearance of nine hanging female figures drives off the exploration team. Further examination of the grove was unable to locate the house.

and you'd see somebody standing on the side of the road, waving, just like this.

Agent Aimes: One last question, Mrs. Fletcher. After the earthquake, they found a room underneath the basement near the pool.

the trope of "exploration team loses communication and it sporadically comes back while they say something creepy" is something you've done a lot of before in 1730 and 2935, for example.

as well as rescinding the clearance level prerequisites for viewing. The possibility of cognitohazardous properties and/or malicious code has not yet been ruled out. Proceed with caution.

Foundation web crawler Trinidad-1 is to expunge any images of SCP-3319 from satellite footage. While civilian access to SCP-3319 is unlikely due to the remote location, a polar bear sanctuary is to be used as a front to block access.

radar analysis has shown that a buried portion of the item extends to over 15 km underneath the island.

Analysis of SCP-3319 is limited by its anomalous effect, in that any object that approaches within 500 meters disappears.

Kušum: Containment abandoned indefinitely.

All staff are advised to remain calm, and find a comfortable place to sleep during the erasure process.

Look, I'm going to go out on a limb here with a hypothesis. The entire planet has been taken somewhere else, likely extradimensional.

There are no signs of any contained objects anywhere. O4-19 just reported a simultaneous 100% breach of all tangible scips.

Doctor Huever's Hypercanon theory, which holds that our reality is not a single narrative bulk below the Alpha layer, but an n-dimensional set of narrative planes connecting at defined conceptual points. The most notable concentration of these points is, of course, the Database. While the formation of these narrative planes is still being studied, the strongest coherent factor between them is Database Causal Inclusions - that is to say, instances of swn001-1 ("Horror Writer Entities").

Our very own Operation FLAT HORIZON has shown some success thus far in incorporating these planes, thus reducing their multiplicity.

SCP-1304 and observation of SCP-2916-1 and SCP-2747, subnarrative entities capable of acting on and escaping to their upper layer,

Procedure Kuzco-Bueller has been developed by Subnarrativics, utilising SCP-826, for the purpose of full narrative extraction - taking fictional entities and bringing them into our reality.

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1. SCP-X recalls its interactions with the Foundation continuously across evocations and instances.

2. Trials have shown that SCP-X is more expository when such compounds are administered in appropriate doses. If the recommended dose is exceeded, the personality limits itself to staring and producing vocalizations described as low, guttural hissing and whistling.

3. Forensics suggests that remnant soft tissues including the skin, organs, and eyes are prioritized in this process.

4. Indications include feathers, tracks, excrement, and various markings upon and within victims' exhumed coffins.